This year our class is taking on the challenge of trying to solve some of the issues that have plagued our globe over the past twenty years. This page is designed to record our journey along the way as well as serve as a dumping ground for any information that we may come across as we begin and continue to research a possible solution.
Global Issue #1:
The following document will serve as a template for you to follow as you go along and begin organizing you information.
Solving the Issues of the World…One Friday at a Time
Group Names: Griffin Long and Knox Hagan
Global Issue #1:
Famine
What is the problem? 14.6% of people in the US are suffer from famine
● Where do we give the food? Atlanta Community Food Bank.
● In 2012, 48 million Americans suffered from food insecure households.
● 16.9% of people in Georgia suffer from hunger.
● September is the National Famine Awareness month.
● Famine is a worldwide problem but we will focus on it in Atlanta.
● The Potato Famine in Ireland caused millions to either die or flee to America.
● The Indian Famine was one of the worst ever.
● We are going to focus on the metro Atlanta area.
● Some kids only have the food they get at lunch.
● The people who are affect the most in the United States is the people who are out of work.
● City areas have worse famine than the county.
● There are more unemployed than the combined populations of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho and
the District of Columbia. If they were a country, the 13.9 million unemployed Americans would be the 68th largest country in the world, bigger than the population of Greece or Portugal (each of which has 10.8 million people) and more than twice the population of Norway (4.7 million.)
● The states most affected by famine are Arkansas, Texas, and Arizona.
● The Horn of Africa has the worst famine in the world.
● There are approximately 26,300 food banks in the United States
● We are going to interview Mr. Deitz on famine in Africa.
Questions? ○ How would you help the famine problem in Atlanta? ○ How does Woodward help the problem? ○ I realize you go to terranova tell us about the problem over their. ○ How many food drives does Woodward have a year? ○ Where does the food go? ○ Can we have a food drive? ○ What reward would the students who brought food get?
Global Issue #1:
The following document will serve as a template for you to follow as you go along and begin organizing you information.
Solving the Issues of the World…One Friday at a Time
Group Names: Griffin Long and Knox Hagan
Global Issue #1:
Famine
- ● There are more unemployed than the combined populations of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Idaho and
the District of Columbia.If they were a country, the 13.9 million unemployed Americans would be the 68th largest country in the world, bigger than the population of Greece or Portugal (each of which has 10.8 million people) and more than twice the population of Norway (4.7 million.)
- ● The states most affected by famine are Arkansas, Texas, and Arizona.
- ● The Horn of Africa has the worst famine in the world.
- ● There are approximately 26,300 food banks in the United States
- ● We are going to interview Mr. Deitz on famine in Africa.
Questions?○ How would you help the famine problem in Atlanta?
○ How does Woodward help the problem?
○ I realize you go to terranova tell us about the problem over their.
○ How many food drives does Woodward have a year?
○ Where does the food go?
○ Can we have a food drive?
○ What reward would the students who brought food get?